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Author Appel, Martin, author

Title Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character / Marty Appel

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  B .S825Ac    AVAILABLE  
 Maine State Lib. Stacks  OFFSITE B S8253a 2017    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition
Phys Descr x, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Note BPL: Ian MacInnes Fund.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-387) and index
Contents Mail call -- Kansas City -- Lunatic beginning -- Aurora, Illinois -- Casey of Ebbets Field -- The grapefruit from the sky -- Good player? Bad player? -- A pennant for Uncle Robbie -- The Pirates and the Phillies -- McGraw and the Giants -- World Series heroics -- Edna Lawson -- Managing in the minors -- Back to Brooklyn -- Death of Koenecke -- Oil! -- Crossing Kenmore Square -- Milwaukee and K.C. -- Oakland -- The Yankees beckon -- "I owe it to myself" -- DiMaggio and Mr. Berra -- Whitey and Billy -- The Mick -- Taking on Jackie Robinson -- Five Straight -- October off -- Elston Howard -- One last subway series -- Trading Billy Martin -- Dazzling Congress -- Third-place Yankees? -- A pebble at shortstop -- Fired! -- Summer in Glendale -- Selling the amazin' Mets -- Worst team in history -- Closing the Polo Grounds -- Shea Stadium -- A slip and a fall -- Cooperstown -- An active retirement -- Saying goodbye -- Legacy
Summary "A biography of the only baseball player in history to play for all the New York Teams describes how he went on to revolutionize the role of manager and won 10 pennants and seven World Series with the Yankees, "--NoveList
Subject Stengel, Casey
Baseball managers -- United States -- Biography
Other Form Online version: Appel, Marty. Casey Stengel. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2017] 9780385540483 (DLC) 2016028538
OCLC # 951915769
ISBN # 9780385540476
0385540477